Heather Lende, Alaska's previous Writer Laureate, shares a poem read on a cold, dark night during a dinner with friends.

One of Burns's most scathing, and certainly his most famous attack on religious hypocrisy is the satire 'Holy Willie's Prayer'. Written in 1785, the poem was inspired by William Fisher ...

Zaffar Kunial's poem Prayer recalls his father's very first words to him as a new born baby and reminds him of the last words he whispered into his dying mother's ear. Writing in the Irish Times ...